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Remember back in high school when you'd opened up your textbook to find George Washington picking his nose and Joseph Stalin with a peg leg and eye patch. It was enough to make you bow down and thank the graffiti gods for giving you a much needed ...

There's doodling in your textbook. And then, there's what Japanese high school student Chanta is doing: elevating these drawings to a wonderfully twisted art form. Previously, Kotaku showed off inventive school text drawings from throughout Asia.

Idea Factory, the company behind Hakuoki and Hyperdimension Neptunia, have opened an international branch, named Idea Factory International, Inc. , which is based in California. "As it increases the volume of various content it wishes to make av...

Winter 2014 Anime Series 'Noragami' Gets Cast Reveal Posted by Chris Beveridge September 30, 2013 at 04:23 PM Noragami Originally announced as going into production back in June, anime series Noragami has had its cast revealed through the November...

Mighty No. 9 has hit another stretch goal—the game will now have PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions. Next up on the list are PlayStation Vita and Nintendo 3DS versions, at the $3. 5 million mark. Video game stories from other sites on the web.

Viz Media has announced plans to stream the anime adaptation of Tomonori Inoue's post nuclear crisis anime Coppelion on www. vizanime. com and Hulu starting October 2nd. New episodes will be added on subsequent Wednesdays.

In time for this week's Japanese Blu-ray release of the Watamote anime, Good Smile Company will be launching pre-orders for the super deformed Nendoroid Kuroko Tomoko on October 3rd. The acutely awkward heroine is packaged with various unique acce...

After going on sale on Japan's Amazon for a discount, the 2d closet companions old out in a matter of hoursPerhaps not as weird as the Attack on Titan branded kielbasa or curry, SCMart's character bust clothes hangers are still quite bizarre, espe...

Crunchyroll Adds 'Golden Time' For Fall 2013 Anime Lineup Posted by Chris Beveridge September 30, 2013 at 05:18 PM Golden Time Crunchyroll has added another fall anime series to their lineup for the season with the announcement of the supernatural...

This week sees the arrival of the intriguing PlayStation 3 game rain, which we've covered quite a bit here. As of tomorrow it officially hits PSN, and you can catch one last preview in the launch trailer below.

Nintendo has a promotion in Japan that's on par with the $30 eShop credit with Fire Emblem: Awakening and Shin Megami Tensei IV deal. If you purchase two Nintendo 3DS games between September 1 and January 13, 2014 and register them to a Club Ninte...

Little Busters! EX character visuals are surprisingly appropriate – they look reasonably on par with the original novel designs, sharp and skimpy just as they should be, fulfilling their roles quite exceptionally.

A word of caution: you probably don't want to be reading this on an empty stomach. We can almost guarantee that will lead to some very bad dining decisions. So, go ahead and fill yourself up on a nice, healthy salad with some light dressing.

The extensive fan project is now over two-thirds complete. The "Studio Miyabi" Minecraft group has created another video showcasing their painstakingly accurate recreation of Attack on Titan's Shiganshina district in Minecraft.

Tachibana joins Kenzaki's fight to seal the Undead, and for the first time in the S. H. Figuarts line: a Kamen Rider is released together with his ride. Joined by the original Kamen Rider: Kamen Rider Ichigo rendered in Super Imaginative Chogoki...

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Kamen Rider 555, the series will be finally released on Blu-ray for the first time! Kamen Rider 555 is the 4th Heisei Kamen Rider show, making this the oldest Kamen Rider show to have a Blu-ray release.

Bandai has announced that Mobile Suit Gundam's latest series, Gundam Build Fighters will be simulcast with English subtitles via GUNDAM. INFO starting October 7. A new episode will be aired every Monday.

Namco Bandai hasn't really held back in promoting Tales of Symphonia Chronicles with a slew of trailers, and the latest is a longer one that previews the RPG collection with English subtitles. Return to Symphonia for a little over three minutes be...

Anime Revolution 2013 On August 16th to 18th, I attended one of the anime conventions in Vancouver. This one took place at Canada Place Convention Centre. I was looking forward to this convention and was not disappointed!

'Exiled From Paradise' Adds New Short Promo Video Posted by Chris Beveridge September 30, 2013 at 04:18 PM Exiled From Paradise While little is known about the production that was announced back in 2012, as we've seen very little about it since th...

Compile Heart developing 2014 game with Guided Fate Paradox's Masahiro Yamamoto Video game company Idea Factory announced on Monday that it has signed a contract with game creator Masahiro Yamamoto (Disgaea 2, Disgaea 4, The Guided Fate Paradox, S...

The red-hot summer is ending along with some of our favorite anime series like Attack on Titan, Rozen Maiden (2013), Free! , A Certain Scientific Railgun S and more, but don't fret just yet because the Fall anime season is just around the corner!

Vertical picked up a new manga license recently and made the announcement this weekend at Anime Weekend Atlanta with Prophecy. The three volume manga series comes from Tetsuya Tsutsui, who has had a number of short run series to date.

The latest of Square Enix's Dragon Quest online title, Dragon Quest X, has been available for Wii, Wii U, and more recently on PC. Japanese mobile carriers NTT DoCoMo announced that they and Square Enix will be working on bringing Dragon Quest X t...

Nintendo is gearing up for another Nintendo Direct presentation this week, this time focusing on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS games that are launching later this year. The video showcase kicks off tomorrow, October 1, at 7:00am PT / 10:00am ET.

We recently got a look at some J-Stars Victory Vs. footage, and now it's back to the less active, but still enticing world of screenshots. The latest mini-batch gives us a closer look at one of the battlegrounds from Toriko, Vegetable Sky, which w...

Uchouten Kazoku – 13 (End) and Series Review This finale was neither spectacular or especially emotional, but it succeeds in terms of the modest expectations it laid out for itself. I don't think there's any question Uchouten Kazoku is one of the ...

With the onset of autumn, the new anime season is upon us. At first glance, the fall season line up suggested there would be only a a few series to watch for me, but after having a thorough look, seems there's plenty of shows that look interesting...